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When bureaucrats are left to reform laws they always seem to be for their own convenience.

So it is with S1451 and S1452 which seeks to update New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) and Open Public Records Act (OPRA) respectively which have served New Jersey citizens* well to varying degrees. When I started getting into this government watchdogging about five years ago it was a chore to rustle up something as basic as a budget. Now budgets, audits, check registries, contracts, ordinances, resolutions, and more are online for most government entities and you can ‘OPRA’ practically anything else. That may soon change. Or, more to the point, that shall soon change.

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765-2015 First Reading: June 18, 2015 Final Adoption: July 16, 2015 View ordinance BOND ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE THE MAKING OF VARIOUS PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND THE ACQUISITION OF NEW ADDITIONAL OR REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY, NEW ADDITIONAL FURNISHINGS, NEW COMMUNICATION AND SIGNAL SYSTEMS EQUIPMENT, NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQU […]

A federal judge on Friday tossed out former Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson’s civil rights lawsuit and declared Wisconsin’s constitutional amendment that forced Abrahamson out of her long-standing seat of power does indeed pass “constitutional muster.”